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ALEXANDER PATERSON, ortonnon, ENGLAND.

PRINTERS FURNITURE,

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 634,024, clatclOctoberB, 1899.

Application filed January 23, 1899. Serial No, 703,208. (No model.) I

To ctZZ whom zit may concern: 7

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER PATERSON, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at London, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Printers Furniture, of which the following is a full and complete specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in printers furniture, and has more particular reference to a locket or cornerpiece for clamps used in printers forms in filling up spaces remaining therein where no printed matter appears.

The object of my invention is to eliminate the present methods used to obtain the end in view, which consists in'filling up blank spaces with solid metal or wooden furniture.

The invention is fully disclosed in the folcomprising a locket H, the lower member A lowing specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several views, and in which- V I Figure 1 is a plan view of a printers form provided 'interiorly with my'im'proved lockets or corner-pieces, bet-weenwhich are securely bound clamps; Fig. 2, an endyview thereof. Fig. 3 is a perspective erid'viewof one of my lockets orLeorner-piecesshown in; Fig. 1. Fig. at is a plan view of parts of two clamps in connection with'a-locket or corner- .piece forlarger clamps than are shown in Fig. 5 is a-plan viewgof pa'rtsot two clamps in connection with a locket or corner- Fig. 1.

piece of the same size asshown in'Fig.'3,

.but which is builtfup to fit larger. clamps;

and Fig.6 represents two locket-sand an iriterposed clamp joinedtogether ands'npported by side clamps similar-to Fig. 4. 3

Referring more par "cularly to the draw-v block, preferably of. metal or other unyielding material, and isangular in shape, forming ,two paralled oppositelysextending members A and' AZ'which are separated bylongitu- I dinal' angular grooves B and O.

. s so When filling up spaces in whichno prinb ing appears, the lockets- A are placed in the cornersof the forms E,as shown in Fig. ,1;

and the clamps D are fitted between thelockets, filling out the unoccupied space in the forms. The lockets A are made of different sizes, corresponding to the diiierent sizes of the clamps D, which in turn correspond to the difierent width and depth of the spaces to be filled.

In'Fig. 1 I have shown a single clamp D double the width of the clamp D, and the purpose of the clamp D is to divide a column orspace to brace or strengthen the same.

In Fig. at is shown a modified locket F for use with larger clamps than those shown at D in Fig. l.- The upper member F thereof is enlarged with relation to the-corresponding member A of the locket A in Figs. 1 and 3, and the lower member A thereof is enlarged with relation to the member of the locket A. In lieu of the construction employed in Fig. 4 that shown in Fig. 5 may be used.

In Fig. 5 is shown a modified corner-piece,

of which is formed as usual, as is the upper member A; but the latter is built up by the addition thereto of pica quads orblanksli, thus obviating the necessity of having in stock for use more than the smallest size of locket. v I

The clamps L (shown broken off i'n'Fig. 5)

are-by the: use of the pica quads K of larger. size than the clamps D. g v

In Fig. 6 is showna combined locket and clamp M for use in producing blank spaces ofa similar width orLthickness in the midst of printed matter; These devicesM are useful infproducingblank pages in bookworkr The combined locket and clamp M is madefof such operative dimensions as it is desired the r resultant blank space to have and is mounted It'is evident that many changes may be made in the construction and arrangement within thespirit of my invention.; 1

- Having fully described my invention, I

nor-piece consisting of a body portion proupon 'side'clamps N of thejordinaryeonstruca y described.

vided with oppositely-extending angular projeetions, projecting therefrom adjacent the of my device, and I claim all such come diagonally opposite corners of said body porl In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 10 tion, substantially as shown and described. I myinvention I have signed my name, in pres- 2. In printers furniture, an angular locket ence of the subscribing witnesses, this 10th or corner-piece consisting of a block provided day of December, 1898. with parallel and oppositely-extending angu-' lar projections, whereby grooves areformed ALEXANDER PATERSON' adapted to fit the end portion of clamps or Witnesses: blocks in connection with which they are ALEXANDER MENZIES,

used, substantially as shown and described. i JAMES MOBRYDE. 

